One-piece logging-shirt.



HI F. TSCHIRGI.

ONE PIECE LOGGING SHIRT. APPLICATION man AUG-6. 1913.

Patented Oct. 24, 1916.

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ONE PIECE LOGGING SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJS. I913.

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2 SHEET$SHEET 2- NTE @TAE@ ENT Flltlt HAREY F. TSCHI'ERGI, 01F @Ic'tEGrON CITY, OREGON, ASSIGNOR T OREGON CITY MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, 9F OREGON CITY, OREGON, A CORPORATION OF OREGON.

ONE-PIECE LQGGING-SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. 24L, 19116).

Application filed August 6, 1913. Serial No. 783,438.

[a all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY F. Tscninol, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oregon City, Clackamas county, State of Oregon, ha re invented a new and useful Improvement in One-Piece Logging-Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shirts of the kind used as outer garments by loggers and other working men engaged in out-door work. These shirts are required to be strong and to afford ample protection against the weather, especially rain.

Since the shoulders are the parts most exposed to rain, these should not have any seams, for the latter are apt to hold the water and cause it to work through. Furthermore, seams at the shoulders render these parts of the shirt bulky. and seams at the shoulders are also most likely to rip, since it is at these parts where the greater strain is imposed.

The shirts heretofore made, embodying some of the features constituting the object of my invention, were made at an increased cost of manufacture over the ordinary shirts, due to two main reasons: first, there was a waste of material in the cutting of the pattern; second, the pattern on which the shirts were cut required sewing on curved lines, and the partial sewing of the sleeves in the armholes, all of whiclris time consuming labor.

In my improved shirt, the pattern is cut all in one piece with little waste; there are no seams on the shoulders, nor in the eyes or holes of the arms, nor in the sides or back; and the pattern is so cut that the sewing work required for joining the pieces together, in the process of forming the body and the sleeves, is done by a single continuous seam running approximately on a straight line; and this work may be done on.

a two-needle machine.

The details of my improved shirt are more readily understood by describing the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an outline of the pattern of my shirt including the arms; Fig. 2 shows the parts arranged for joining the parts together in the process of forming the body and the sleeves of the shirt; in this figure the right-hand portion already has the twoneedle seam, while in the left-hand portion of the figure the parts are merely arranged ready for being joined by a seam; Fig. 3 shows how my improved shirt looks when completed, excepting the collar and finishmg; and Fig. 4. is a perspective view affordmg an opportunity of seeing the mode which the arms are formed, the location o-f the continuous seam by which the body and arms of the shirt are united, and the appearance. of these features when the arm is lifted by the wearer.

The first step in the manufacture ofgny improved shirt consists in cutting the phttern, as shown in Fig. 1, of which the portron. a. constitutes the back of the shirt; Z), the front pieces; and c, c, g, 9, represent the separated edges of the horizontal slits separating the front pieces b, b, frpm the sleeve pieces, d, d. The inner ends of said slits are curved slightly downward as shown at n, n, and these curves provide n part commodious openings for the arms 1n the completed garment. The portions e, c, of the pattern form the companion or upper portions of the front pieces, d, (1', also form the shoulders, 70, 7c.

The top edges, h, h, of the sleeve -portrons are cut on upwardly extending intersecting oblique lines, as shown in Fig. 1. The top edges, Z, Z, of. the upper portions are cut on lines located inward of the edges, 71., h, but extending parallel therewith. The outer ends of said edges Z, Z, terminate in curved lines as at, m, m, which portions connect with the edges, 72,, h; and said curves m. m, correspond with the curves n, a, of said horizontal slits separating the front pieces and the sleeve pieces, and also contribute to the forming of the arm holes of the garment.

Between the upper portions or pieces, 6, 6', 1s cut a gore, o, and at the lower end of the latter is cut the neck opening, f, on which the collar is sewed when the garment is finished.

No arm holes are required to be cut out of the material.

It will be noted that in the cutting of my pattern there is very little waste of material, since the figure formed by my pattern is a close aproach to a rectangle.

The pattern having been cut, the parts are next arranged as shown in Fig. 2, the portions, b, Z), being folded forward and inward so as to overlie the back, the upper bottom edges, 9, 9 of the sleeve pieces as' also illustrated in Fig. 2. The double seam,

v iris then sewed'in'tlie direction pointed by the. arrow in Fig. 2, substantially straight across the garment on the overlapped edges; the seam so produced is then cut at 7', and the shirt, upon being straightened out, will appear substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

My shirt does not require any arm-holes cut out of the material, nor any seams for joining the sleeves to the body of the shirt at these places, and there will be no seams at the sides or back. All the sewing required for forming the sleeves and the body and uniting the parts, is done by the single operation above described.

A shirt so produced will have some semblance of fit, which gives it a neater appearance, and'it will not be bulky at the shoulders, since it is seamless at these parts as well as at the sides and back. The 'wearing qualities of the shirt are materially increased since there are noseams at the shoulders, sides, or back, to rip, and it is these parts of the shirt which receive the greatest strain, especially when the garment is worn by a workman using his arms freely and vigorously.

The seams in my garmentare located where they receive a minimum strain, and 7 this also adds to the lasting qualities of my improved shirt. The simplicity of the sewmanufacture of my piece of material having oppositely disposed slits extending horizontal and straight for their major portions and the inner ends of said slits being curved downwardly, the portions of the material above the slits forming the sleeve portions of the garment, the upper portion of the piece of material being provlded with a central, substantially elliptical neck-opening, and two outwardly inclined edges extending from such neckopening to the upper edge to form the upper portions of the front of the garment, and the portions below said slits forming the lower parts of the front of the garment, the upper edges adjacent said inclined edges of the upper portion of the material being downwardly inclined and upwardly curved to match with said slits and the downwardly curved ends of the latter, the upper edges of the sleeve portion lapping the lower edges of the sleeve portions and the upper edges of said lower front parts of the garment, and a single row of horizontal stitches extending across said matching and lapped edges, said downwardly curved portions of the slits forming with said upwardly curved parts of the upper edge of the material en larged arm holes.

HARRY F. TSCHIRGI.

Witnesses:

Joe. E. Havens, MARION C. MONEY. 

